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discussed in biography of Patrick

...organisms. In 1945 she accepted a full-time position at the academy as the head of microscopy. In 1966 Patrick and fellow researcher Charles Reimer published the first volume of
The Diatoms of the United States Exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii, the classic two-volume series describing the taxonomy of this group of organisms. (The second volume was published in 1975.)